Title
Implementing an IT Concentration in a CS Department: Content, Rationale, and Initial Impact
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2000
Description
The increasing use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software has created a demand for information technology (IT) professionals, people that build and manage systems assembled from COTS components. The East Tennessee State University Dept. of Computer Information Systems Fall 1999 program of study for training IT professionals is presented. This IT concentration differs from other concentrations in four key ways: it emphasizes Visual Basic instead of C++; it emphasizes Web, database and networking applications instead of system software; it puts more emphasis on human issue in computing, ethics, computer-assisted instruction, and systems analysis and specification; and it deemphasizes science and math.
Citation Information
Countermine, Terry; and Pfeiffer, Phil. 2000. Implementing an IT Concentration in a CS Department: Content, Rationale, and Initial Impact. SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education). 275-279. https://doi.org/10.1145/331795.331869 ISSN: 0097-8418